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Private Prison Contractor Not Subject to New Jersey’s Open Records Act
Loaded on Aug. 12, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2014, page 50
Private Prison Contractor Not Subject to New Jersey’s Open Records Act
On October 12, 2012, a New Jersey state superior court held that Community Education Centers (CEC), a private prison contractor, was not required to disclose its records under the state’s Open Public Records Act (OPRA), N.J.S.A. § …
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